ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ OOOOOOOOOOO RRRRRRRRRRRRR NNN NNN Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ooooooooooooo r rr nnnn nnn zz o o r rr nnnnn nnn zzz o o r rr nnnnnn nnn zzz o o r rr nnn nnn nnn zzz o o r rr nnn nnn nnn zzz o o r rr nnn nnn nnn zzz o o rrrrrrrrrrrrr nnn nnn nnn zzz o o rr rr nnn nnn nnn zzz ooooooooooooo rr rr nnn nnnnnn zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZ OOOOOOOOOOO rr rr nnn nnnnn ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ rr rr nnn nnnn rr rr NNN NNN RR RR (AND OTHER NYC DOWNTOWN MUSICIANS) posts: zorn@unh.edu sub/unsub: zorn-request@unh.edu *** BACK ISSUES of this digest can be obtained in 3 ways: *** 1) anonymous FTP at cs.uwp.edu *** 2) via my homepage: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mpj1 *** 3) send mail to mpj1@kepler.unh.edu, on the subject line, put: send #, where # is the issue you want DIGEST #89, 9-30-95 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -From jeff@shop.internet.net Fri Sep 29 12:06:35 1995 -Subject: Re: Covers >Whats on the cover of Painkillers Rituals cd? The front cover is a bondage scene with a woman standing over a man and barfing into his mouth. The back cover is another bondage scene with a woman crushing a man's genitals with her heel. I will try to get this posted at the Axiom web site in the next week or two. >Whats the differens between the censored and the uncensored version of >the Guts Of A Virgin cover? The cover I saw on US-approved Guts CDs had the picture blanked out. Maybe there is now a cover with the picture on it. The front and back covers of Guts and Buried Secrets, as they originally appeared, are at the Axiom web site (URL below) on the Images page. Also, the Japanese version of Execution Ground, which has a third live CD, had an interesting photo that was not included in the US package. That photo can be accessed by going to the URL http://www.hyperreal.com:80/music/labels/axiom/axiom2.html Jeff Spirer jeff@internet.net Axiom Web Site: http://www.hyperreal.com/axiom/ ``We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there."-- Dana Gould ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -From ramsey@pcint.pc.maricopa.edu Fri Sep 29 13:31:11 1995 -Subject: Elliott Sharp I saw Elliott Sharp last night on his in-store performance tour that was supposed to be with Zeena Parkins, but for some reason, she couldn't make it. Anyway, he fucked shit up! (That's good, by the way.) It was just him with a combimation bass/guitar, and he also played an alto sax/clarinet (pardon me for my musical ignorance, but as you can see, I'm mostly doomed to being an element of the audience; :) ). He went nuts for what seemed like forever recording finger-tapping on the fretboard into his echo pedal and then playing that back (from the echo pedal) while improvising on top of that, and then heading back to the finger-tapping rythym he created, all without missing a beat. It was fucking AWESOME, I tell you; almost mechanic, it was so precise. When playing the sax, he'd mute it with the side of his calve, and use this breathing technique I've never seen before to play continuously for a really long time. He played for what seemed like a little over 45 minutes, with about 75% of that being working on the bass/guitar. He also utilized a myriad of other pedals, a drum machine, and he had a Mac Powerbook doing some work (I assume as a second drum machine). Needless to say, I was taken aback by how good this was. In the realm of avant-garde stuff, I'm only really familiar with Zorn (which is probably obvious), but now I'm scared because I picked up a Carbon CD last night, and if I really like it, I'm probably going to end up doing like I do with Zorn: purchasing everything I can find by him. And having this affliction with Zorn is expensive enough! ;) My only regret is that I didn't videotape last night's performance. I felt like a real buffoon last night, though, because I really wanted to talk to Elliott Sharp and ask him a million questions, but I honestly couldn't think of what to say or ask, so I ended up bothering him for probably 5 minutes engaging in the most inane of small talk, trying to strike up some sort of real conversation, but I failed miserably, and probably made a fool out of myself. Heh. But that's life, I suppose. Drew. -- Andrew Ramsey - Phoenix, Arizona USA ramsey@pcint.pc.maricopa.edu 15909@ef.gc.maricopa.edu 15909@ef.pc.maricopa.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -From zanghi@merle.acns.nwu.edu Fri Sep 29 17:50:52 1995 -Subject: Eye john zorn & yamantaka eye: nani nani I've listened to this one. Isn't his name Yamasuka Eye, or something like that, or is that someone else I'm thinking of? >3.First Recordings 1973 How old was Zorn in 1973? He was some sick child. From the inside jacket of this CD, I would guess he was a teen. I wonder if he ever performed this stuff during a high school recital. i can see all the kids' parents running for their lives. I thought this one is the most interesting of the 4 new Tzadik CD's. someone wrote in Digest 88: > john zorn: the book of heads (marc ribot playing Zorn solo guitar > stuff...amazingly funny and simply all around great. a winner in the > greatest sense of the word) > john zorn & yamantaka eye: nani nani (chaos! chaos! not exactly my cup of > tea, but, wow, is it funny...) I have a complete opposite opinion on these new releases. I was totally bored with Marc Ribot and still have yet to hear the whole CD in one sitting and probably will never happen, while I really enjoyed nani nani. It's those 1973 recordings that really freaked me out though. Just beautiful. Jim ...space is the place... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -From blholmes@best.com Fri Sep 29 19:37:21 1995 I have recently put a web site up devoted to buckethead. I have pretty accurate listing of albums and pictures. Any more info, comments, and suggestions would be greatly apreciated. Hope you like it. Thanks. BUCKETHEADLAND:http://www.best.com/~blholmes/buckethead/buckethead.html ############################ Brian Holmes Joybound Travel Network Praxis Internet Advertising blholmes@best.com http://www.sffind.com (415)931-4973 "When knowledge hangs around your kneck like pearls instead of chains You are a lucky man" -Alan Price ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -From jeff@shop.internet.net Sat Sep 30 00:43:12 1995 -Subject: Praxis Live in SF PRAXIS will be playing live in San Francisco at Slim's on October 26 at 9PM. The band will be Buckethead on guitar, Bill Laswell on bass, Brain on drums and Oz Fritz on sound. There is no tour, this is a one-shot performance. Jeff jeff@internet.net http://www.hyperreal.com/axiom/ Jeff Spirer, Vice President of Sales Internet Shopping Network http://www.internet.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------------